I saw your post about the Canadian healthcare system, and it just, really resonated with me. Like, I know we have problems, but the fact that we have preventative care makes me happy. Weirdly I wonder if its the age/style of docs people are seeing? My original gp(much as I loved her) was like, fairly dismissive, but the minute she retired and I got a young doctor, BAM I got diagnosed, because he was like, I hear you and your vague symptoms, and want to get that shit diagnosed.
Yes! I kinda sorta get the feeling that people who complain about the Canadian system arenāt quite aware of just how much worse it is in the USA. As people said in the notes of the post: Imagine that every time a doctor called you delusional, they charged you a minimum of $100 for the privilege.
Canadian healthcare can suck! See also: Kate Beatonās account of her sisterās death from cancer, where medical professionals wrote in her chart that she was āparanoidā for suspecting her cancer might be back (spoiler: IT WAS).Ā
My current family doctor saw my mother for 5 years before I was born, and Iāve seen her all my life, and sheās great, but... idk, I feel like I could find someone whoās a lot better about mental health and chronic pain. With both of those issues, she spent years telling me to just exercise more and live right, and I had to self-educate about my conditions and learn how to use the system and basically strongarm her into referring me to specialists.
It really is kind of a relief when I go in for visits and sheās on holiday and she has some fresh-faced locum younger than I am, and they just know SO MUCH MORE about my conditions than she does, and theyāre also fresh and new and donāt know me and want to do Everything Right. Oh, and some of them even know what bisexuality and polyamory are!Ā
Itās not that an older doctor canātĀ be super up-to-date with science changing at the speed of light when it comes to things like mental health, itās just... a lot more likely with someone trained in this century, I guess. Not to mention, the doctors in this city who areĀ well-equipped to handle the chronic pain-complex trauma-ADHD trifecta are FULL UP on patients. Sometimes literally,Ā āHeāll take new patients unless they have one of those three conditions.ā
Ugh, I guess that leaves me phoning around to every family physician in the city whoās got lots of training and experience with psychiatric issues. WHEE.
(I wonāt ask about chronic pain, because the standard treatments for chronic pain make me want to murder people.)














